Re: [ ruby-Bugs-1173 ] Incorrect escaping in strings produced by String::inspect

Hi --

On Thu, 9 Dec 2004, [ISO-8859-1] Florian Growrote:

> David A. Black wrote:
>
>>> The following causes a runtime syntax error:
>>> eval('Foo #@ bar'.inspect)
>>> 
>>> I'm not sure if that use-case is supposed to be supported, but I think a 
>>> number of applications rely on it.
>> I don't think it's inspect or eval specific.
>> 
>> irb(main):001:0> "#@a"
>> => ""
>
> I think the original poster wanted '#@a'.inspect to be "\#@a" instead of 
> "#@a". (There's no interpolation for single quote Strings and this form of 
> variable interpolation can be escaped via \)

I don't think that's what he meant.  eval('#@a'.inspect) doesn't raise
a SyntaxError, whereas what he's written does and that was what he was
suggesting was buggy.


David

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